You’ve noticed the trend, businesses around the globe are embracing social media. Now, you want to harness that same power for your business. First, you need a social business strategy that makes sense for your business. In order to do that, you must consider the fact that times have changed. No longer can an organization …
Using Owned Native Window Functionality with Spark Windows
The release of AIR 2.6 brought about a lot of enhancements and features. One of which was owned native windows. What’s special about this is it makes it easy to have a main window that owns other windows, which is ultra-useful for applications that make use of multiple windows for things like tool palettes, property …
Using ANT to Compile a Flex Mobile Project for iOS
It’s 3am. You have a sexy Flex mobile project that takes full advantage of the Hero SDK and its Spark mobile components. You’re dying to deploy to iPhone and iPad but unfortunately, you either have to build your app using Adobe’s iPhone packager via the command line interface (CLI), wait until Flash Builder includes a …
BlackBerry PlayBook – Calling All Developers
Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock for the past month, you’ve probably heard that Research In Motion (RIM), creator of the infamous BlackBerry smartphone, is soon to release an entry into the tablet market: The BlackBerry PlayBook. This device will definitely have an impact on the future of tablet-based computing. Here’s some preliminary info …
Adobe Illustrator CS5 HTML Pack
If you’ve been longing for a way to take your vector designs straight from Illustrator to Dreamweaver, you’ll want to grab the Illustrator CS5 HTML Pack from Adobe Labs. Here’s a brief rundown of some of the features: PROS Support SVG + HTML 5 – canvas – scaleable – accessible text Generate CSS3 Live, selectable …
Apple vs. Adobe – Hero’s Perspective
After reading Steve Job’s dismissive stance on Adobe’s Flash technology, I felt compelled to add my two cents on the subject by penning my own letter to Steve. Dear Steve, After reviewing your recent comments regarding Flash and the recent amendments to the Apple Developer TOS, I decided to share with you my response to …
FITC Amsterdam 2010 Recap
First, this will be a rather lengthy pictorial of the last few days here in Amsterdam. For those that have never been, I’ll also share my insights and tips on visiting the city since I’m a seasoned pro now, LOL (4th time). The City Amsterdam is a really cool city. It hasn’t changed that much …